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Pakistani security officials gather at the site where a policeman, providing security to a polio vaccination team, was killed by gunmen on the outskirts of Quetta in February. Two polio workers and their police escort were shot dead in Khyber ...UCAN India, 1 week ago

SWAT: A father and two of his children were killed in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday after a bomb concealed inside a toy went off inside their home. The incident happened in the village of Bishigram in the Swat Valley. Salim Khan Marwat, the ...

ISLAMABAD: Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a polio team on Saturday in Pakistan's Khyber, killing one person, even as there was no word on a two member team with two police escorts that went missing a day before. In Saturday's incident, a team ...

MANSEHRA / SWABI: Gunmen shot dead two lady health workers and their police escort in Mansehra district, forcing suspension of the polio vaccination campaign for an indefinite period of time. The suspension order came on the second day of the ...

:50 View Comments In this Monday, Feb. 16, 2015 photo, a Pakistani health worker gives polio vaccine to a child at a bus terminal in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. While vaccine distrust has sparked debates amid a measles outbreak in the United ...

Dawn Publication Date : 06-02-2015 As the state struggles to formulate an effective counterterrorism policy, it should not forget the threat that militants continue to pose to Pakistan's polio eradication efforts. A number of ...

Khuram Parvez—REUTERS Samiullah Afridi, lawyer for Shakil Afridi who ran a fake vaccination campaign to try help U.S. officials find al-Qaeda chief Osama bin laden, speaks to the media after appearing before the court in Peshawar October 30, ...

Story highlights A second militant group claims responsibility for the killing Samiullah Afridi had represented Dr. Shakeel Afridi, who was convicted of treason Unidentified gunmen attacked the lawyer, Samiullah Afridi, in his car near the city of ...